October is Italian Heritage Month so Living Language and Broadway Books are pleased to provide five lucky winners with an all-about-Italian prize package, valued at $115.79.

Each prize package will include the following:

• (1) signed hardcover copy of La Bella Lingua by Dianne Hales

• (1) Living Language Complete Italian: The Basics package

• (1) Living Language Baby’s First Words in Italian package

• (1) Living Language 2000+ Essential Italian Verbs with CD-ROM

• (1) Fodor’s Italy 2010

The contest runs until November 7. The email addresses go straight to a computer in Random House’s vault and will not be used for any solicitations. The contest is limited to people with mailing addresses in the U.S and Canada.

Thanks for the heads up! I thought of you this morning when I was looking at an events calendar for this month and realized that tomorrow there is a wine tasting here in the city, I Greco, from Calabria! I’m thinking perhaps the husband and I will go.